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immy Pattison’s motto— I’ve read his autobiography and his unauthorized biography—is ‘You gotta wanna,’ � crime novelist Fraser Nixon tells the Straight in a conspiratorial tone. We’re ensconced in the back booth of a dimly lit bar on South Granville, and the nattily dressed Nixon is overflowing with enthusiasm for our city’s richest man. “Can you use that in the profi le? ‘You gotta wanna’? So I can clip it out and give it to Jimmy.� (I’m a woman of my word.) It’s no surprise Nixon admires the self-made billionaire business magnate. Nixon’s first book, 2011’s Arthur Ellis Award–nominated The Man Who Killed, was published after he recognized former Douglas & McIntyre publisher Scott McIntyre as a regular at the restaurant in the Vancouver hotel where he worked, walked straight up to him, and handed him his manuscript. And the story behind his sophomore novel, the sleazily amusing caper Straight to the Head, follows the same gumptious path: “I knocked at the door and basically cold-called Arsenal Pulp Press like a door-to-door literary salesman,� he tells me. “So far it’s worked. It’s the only way I know how to sell a book.� Unlike Nixon’s first novel, a noir set in 1920s Montreal, Straight to the Head takes place in Vancouver in 1983 and 1986. A clever, stylish, and funny tale of stolen drugs, crooked cops, and a torrid summer romance between a rich guy from the West Side and smart girl from Chinatown, the book is like the love child of Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch and Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero—which are set in balmy Florida and Los Angeles, respectively. But Nixon chose Vancouver as his backdrop because “there was no book like this set in Vancouver before�—and, he jokes, “you can shoot the movie of it here. Except, in a weird way you can’t. Because
Fraser Nixon sets his latest tale in a town that seems hazily distant in time.
was less academic. “We all talk in the cadence of our time, like the Dude would,� he says. “And that, believe it or not, was another great touchstone, something like The Big Lebowski. And you know, Robert Altman movies from the ’70s. The Long Goodbye. It was supposed to be this loose, West Coast feel where no matter how tense it got, it didn’t matter.� And that laid-back vibe permeates the novel. “It’s a caper, but it’s got this slack—to have a joint, to have a beach bonfire—because that’s just the way we operate out here.� Today, as his second novel publishes, Nixon works as a process server, cycling around Vancouver ambushing people with legal documents. “You don’t want to see me,� he says, chuckling, “because it means you’re going to court.� The rest of Nixon’s work history is equally idiosyncratic; he’s toiled as everything from a hotel night manager to a newspaper-ad salesman, and prides himself on working for a living and not relying on grants. “I consider a Canada Council grant to be like a scratch-and-win,� he says. “I don’t have an MFA—I only know how to work and knock on a door and try to sell.� His next novel—which he’s already finished—is inspired by his previous job as a dock manager for a seaplane company on Salt Spring. “It takes place on the San Juan Islands. It’s called No Naked Flame, which is a warning when you’re in the presence of aviation fuel—it can explode if you don’t treat it correctly,� he explains. “And it’s sexy and crazy and weird. Lots of black magic. People believing in covens and that sort of stuff.� And for Nixon, magic is never that far away. “Writing is magic. If you approach it in the right spirit, it’s the most fun you can have for basically free,� he informs me. An example of that fun? “I put myself in Straight to the Head, as one of the kids talking to Expo Ernie,� he says. “You know who bought Expo Ernie? At Maynards, for $30,000? Jimmy fucking Pattison!� -
it’s all been knocked down, it’s all condo towers.â€? The Vancouver of Nixon’s novel is a landscape both familiar and yet hazily distant. “We didn’t know it, but Vancouver in 1983 was at the end of its old life as a logging town, a railway town, a pioneer boomtown,â€? he says of the era. Straight to the Head captures that past in obsessive detail. From the BowMac sign in “the baking hellscape of West Broadway’s concrete desertâ€? to the Venus Theatre and steaks at Trader Vic’s, and encounters with Howard Hughes, a young Michael BublĂŠ, and, of course, Jimmy Pattison, it’s a paean to a city that a man like Nixon, who was mostly in his single digits when the story takes place, might not remember in fine detail. But still, he insists it’s not a sentimental book. “This isn’t any false nostalgia for a finer Vancouver, because it sucked in a lot of ways. You couldn’t get a decent bagel, food was terrible, most of downtown was parking lots‌ But it was more itself.â€? To research the book’s setting, Nixon did a lot of digging at UBC, Straight to the Head launches on SFU, and the VPL; his research Thursday (April 14) at Hot Art Wet for ’80s Vancouver vernacular City.
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to fully power North America so long as you have grid integration to solve the intermittency problem. That’s actually a very exciting result, because this technology already exists.” Oreskes was in Vancouver earlier this month to deliver the spring Wall Exchange lecture at the Vogue Theatre. It was sponsored by UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Feed-in tariffs are payments to people who generate their own renewable energy—perhaps through wind, solar, tidal, or geothermal sources— and flow it back into the grid. The utility, in turn, resells it to another customer. The B.C. Liberal government has refused to implement a feed-in tariff for B.C. Hydro, citing its “efforts to minimize electricity rate increases”. “We should be encouraging everyone to maximize their distributedenergy potential,” she stated. “There’s a huge amount of untapped potential that’s being blocked by regulatory limits on how much distributed energy people can feed in.”
Demand-response pricing involves adjusting electricity prices depending on overall usage. This offers incentives to people to use power in off-peak periods. B.C. Hydro usually applies “postage-stamp rates”. This means that all customers pay the same rate regardless of where they live, but there are exceptions where some are being subsidized. After describing these structural issues required to promote the use of more renewable energy, Oreskes quipped: “My slogan is, ‘I can change my light bulbs but I can’t change my electricity grid.’ ” Oreskes and another historian of science, Erik Conway, coauthored the widely praised 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. It was adapted into a documentary feature directed by Robert Kenner. The book and the film identify a group of American physicists—Fred Singer, Russell Seitz, William Nierenberg, and Robert Jastrow—who played a leading role in creating doubt about climate change, even though they weren’t climate scientists. “We followed the trail that these men had laid starting from their work at the George Marshall Institute back in the 1980s and found this shocking, rather startling story of serial denialism—denying the scientific evidence related to a whole set of diverse issues that we traced back to tobacco,” Oreskes said. “We were most interested in the question of how prestigious scientists lend credibility to these activities.” -
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pril 1, 2016, marked the one-year anniversary of the B.C. government’s effort to modernize the province’s liquor policies. To celebrate the milestone and ensure everyone is aware that all’s well in Victoria, it issued a news release entitled “No foolin’—#BCliquor changes are a win for British Columbia.” Of course, the release was riddled with good-feelin’, voter-friendly accomplishments—such as wine beginning to be available in B.C. grocery stores, and the opportunity for artisan and farmers markets to feature craft beer and wine—and trotted out other revolutionary developments, like the implementation of happy hours and the removal of beer-garden fencing requirements. Now, there were more than a few Policy changes haven’t resulted in a things missing from this release, level playing field for booze retailers. particularly the oft-mentioned “level playing field” that was con- staff member in order to ensure the stantly guaranteed over the past business remains sustainable. year. You know, the one where the Sure, importers can always bring government officially separated in wines to be offered as spec items, the wholesale and retail aspects of warehoused for sale by the case to B.C. Liquor Stores so the whole- private retailers and restaurants, sale division would be providing but with government stores being the same wholesale price for all, the key industry players, it’s difficult including both government stores for companies to run sustainably by and private retailers? solely relying on this model. Of course, that level playing field Another issue with the spec was heavily tilted toward government system is that when products are liquor stores, as a good handful of ordered by restaurants, they can private stores aren’t even permitted take anywhere from 10 days to four to sell beer and weeks to arrive, spirits, and it is even though they only B.C. Liquor are warehoused Stores that are in Richmond. Kurtis Kolt permitted to sell Not one person in to restaurants. Oh, and restaurants this industry has been able to ofalso got the shaft in the whole scen- fer a valid explanation as to why. ario, as they continue to pay full retail These are extremely difficult parprice for all products, with nary a hint ameters for small businesses to of any wholesale price or discount. work within, so often restaurants As one would imagine, being end up defaulting to picking up the sole retailer permitted to sup- more mainstream products (with ply restaurants leaves B.C. Liquor higher government profit margins) Stores with an incredible advan- from government store shelves. tage. To be even more competi- There are more than a few conspirtive, though, government stores acy theorists who think this isn’t have been gradually importing coincidence. more products as B.C. Liquor The biggest issue I’ve heard about Store exclusives that, with their from wine agents is pricing. Alpurchasing and market power, though we were constantly promthey’re able to offer at remarkably ised these changes wouldn’t mean affordable prices. increases in prices, this has not When it comes to wine, an in- been the case. In government stores, creasing number of products in taxes are no longer included in shelf this exclusive category, along with prices, instead being added at the till, other wine categories retailed by the so there’s an illusion of price stability stores, are lower-quality items, the that doesn’t exist. fast food of the wine world—generAgents constantly learn through ic, uninspired plonk that, of course, restaurant purchasers or consumis often a larger revenue generator. ers of their shelf prices increasing There are multitudes of them on without their knowledge and withshelves, many of them practically out those increases happening on identical to one another. the agents’ end. Importers were Think of Vancouver trading out initially offered a formula with the Chambar, Hawksworth, Bao Bei, government-policy changes so once Wildebeest, and, hell, even a couple their wholesale price was estabof Cactus Clubs in favour of another lished, they’d have a good idea of the half-dozen McDonald’s. In many shelf price that consumers are being cases, this has come at the expense of offered; that formula seems to have a solid selection of quality products gone out the window. at all price points and selection for Here’s one of numerous examples the consumer, never mind general from last summer: Charles Smith wine culture in what many refer to Wines’ (delicious) Kung Fu Girl as a “world-class” city. Riesling from Washington state Consequently, many wine agen- jumped from $20.99 to $21.49 on cies and importers are having to the shelf, and their Eve Chardondownsize or possibly even close up nay’s listed hospitality price (the shop altogether. I’ve spoken with nonwholesale price that restaumore than a few who don’t know rants pay through the spec system) how much longer they can stay in the leaped from $19.49 to $21.49, withgame if things keep going this way. out notice or the wholesale price “There is a dumbed-down selec- having been adjusted on either. tion of products on shelves,” Paul Even though we were paying Watkin, sales director of Seacove some of the highest prices on the Premium Wine and Spirits, told me planet for wine, this means we are when reached by phone. The well- now paying even more. regarded team at Seacove has been While the provincial government importing quality, well-made wine touts these changes as “a win for by globally respected producers for British Columbia”, I haven’t heard decades. “We’re seeing less and less that from anyone else. In fact, there not even premium but unique wine is one comment I do hear, and it is on government-liquor-store shelves. heard extraordinarily often at im“We’re losing listings and our port agencies, in private stores, and portfolio is becoming smaller as a amongst restaurateurs. The one refrain I hear more than any result,” he added. In fact, Seacove recently had a salesperson move other when it comes to government on and has opted not to replace the liquor policy: “It’s a nightmare.” -
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ith winter over and cherry blossoms in full bloom, the days of stews and heavy comfort foods are done for another year. Halibut season is officially here, and spot prawns will soon be arriving. Several local restaurants that specialize in seafood have plenty on offer to lure in diners seeking a meal that celebrates all things aquatic. The Vancouver Fish Company Restaurant and Bar at the entrance to Granville Island is one of them. With a large patio overlooking so many fishing boats, it’s situated right next door to its suppliers, priding itself on its “hook to plate” menu and partnering with Organic Ocean Seafood. “Their fishermen are unbelievable,” says Steve Duyzer, managing director and general manager. “You can tell their commitment to quality based on their respect for the Vancouver Fish Company’s most popular dish is maple-walnut prawns (left); Beach Bay Café’s executive chef, Felix Chou, focuses on simple cooking. Alison Kuhl photo. fish. They harvest our sockeye from Bowen Island to the Haida Gwaii VFC, as it calls itself, is hosting its items, maple-walnut prawns, which Farm vegetables, roasted potatoes, and West Restaurant before moving to the and our albacore from the Haida Ocean Wise Festival until April 30, come with yuzu mayo and spiced wal- grilled lemon. That would go down Shangri-La Hotel’s Market by JeanGwaii. We serve [Vancouver Island] featuring items like Zen and Glacier nuts and which Duyzer says have ac- nicely with one of 12 draft beers, all Georges. After heading to London, Humboldt squid oysters, “Haida core” quired a “cultlike following”. He says the from B.C., or a glass of wine; the by- England, in 2012 to work, he returned instead of calatuna tacos, von- recipe is based on a traditional Chinese the-glass portion of the list features to B.C. in 2014 to take on the various mari because it gole with smoked dish and technique. only Okanagan VQA pours. dining options at Whistler’s Nita Lake is local and tastes sablefish and fresh Another signature number is the The Beach Bay Café and Patio, Lodge. Then it was back to Vancouver Gail Johnson amazing. We use clams, and a Salish VFC seafood platter, a bonanza with meanwhile, recently welcomed Felix to assume the role of chef at the ParB.C. rockfish for our fish and chips; Sea boil with clams, mussels, and Dun- seared sashimi-grade sockeye salmon, Zhou as executive chef. The Hunan, ker. He stayed with the restaurant durit was recently certified as Ocean geness crab. That menu also includes albacore tuna, scallops, prawns, and China, native was raised in Vancou- ing its rebranding as Big Trouble. Wise and is also caught locally.” one of the restaurant’s most popular king crab, along with Hannah Brook ver, starting his culinary career at see next page
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At the West End beachside eatery (where Raincity Grill used to be), which has views of English Bay, Zhou focuses on fresh, sustainable seafood (sourced from Albion and 46 South) and approachable dishes that are simply cooked, among them: scallops and sea urchin with Granny Smith apple; prawn ceviche; house-cured wild salmon with avocado, beets, and puffed wild rice; sake-marinated sablefish; and octopus and chorizo with couscous and roasted red peppers. Crowd-pleasers include lingcod fish and chips and a dense seafood chowder; the latter’s ingredients change regularly, but right now it consists of clams, mussels, lingcod, ham hock, leeks, and potatoes. Across the water is Supermarine, just a block from Kitsilano Beach, complete with patio. Owned by
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Vanessa Crouch isn’t
BY LUCY LAU
one to shy away from affection, though we’re willing to bet that her debut feature role in Vancouver’s little-filmthat-could, FSM, may have had a bit more intimacy in store than she bargained for. “There were some quite emotional scenes in there, which are always difficult to sort of get into it,” she recalls, sitting down with the Straight alongside FSM director Melanie Jones at a Chinatown café. “But the sexual content in there as well was new and challenging, and ‘How do I do that and not get awkward?’ ” FSM, its title online-dating-speak for “female seeking male”, stars the Australian-born actor— sans twang, thanks to a childhood partially spent in Calgary—as Samantha, a 20-something DJ killing it in Vancouver’s underground electronic scene. Not so hot, however, is Sam’s love life, which leads the disillusioned part-time teacher by day to the Interweb in search of a connection that’ll last longer than her most recent half-hearted hook-up. (“I don’t think it even counted,” she later tells her stoner BFF during an afternoon smoke sesh at the park.) What follows is a decidedly of-the-moment tale that looks at the stigma of singlehood and hookup culture through a refreshingly hyper-local lens. Written by Jones, who drew primarily from her own experiences in Vancouver’s dating scene, the film illustrates the trials of mating and dating in the swipe-right era—from mixed messages that leave you sexually frustrated to disastrous coffee dates to hopping into bed with your loser ex, only to regret the decision not even midway through the romp. It’s all depicted with such painful accuracy that you can’t help but cringe knowingly at the familiar subtleties. “There were definitely some lines in there that I felt had come out of my own mouth,” says Crouch. “It was incredibly relatable.”
She’s turning the tables
Vanessa Crouch (above) is a demon as a local DJ but not so hot on hook-up culture in Melanie Jones’s FSM, screening at Canadian Film Week. Amanda Siebert photo.
INDIECAN 10K Challenge, and support go toward smaller indie f licks as Jones had only $10,000 to well. For Jones, it’s all about the hometown produce the film—though pride. “There’s a reason that American shows it’s safe to say that, even if want to come up here and shoot,” she says. “But she’d been afforded mil- what if we just made films that take place in EDM, Vancouver’s dating scene, and the city itself are front lions, she’d have spotlight- Kamloops or Prince George or Vancouver? It’d and centre in FSM —all of it from a woman’s perspective ed her hometown all the be really cool to see more of that.” same. It comes down to one Vancouverites at the very least will get to experiOne particular scene sees Sam getting her self- of the film’s most mesmerizing themes: intim- ence exactly this: more female roles and our cherlove on after she leaves a midnight hangout at her acy—a feeling that’s bolstered by a predomin- ished city exhibited in all its glory, once FSM comes crush’s place without even a peck. It’s a powerful antly Canadian soundtrack, which features an to the Vancity Theatre this Saturday (April 16) and sequence that’s presented not gratuitously, but arsenal of local names like Jodi Pederson, Phil Monday (April 18) as part of Canadian Film Week. rather to reveal a softer, if not completely natural, Woolf, and JP Maurice. Eleven other films, including The Pass Sysside of Sam—one that yearns for the tenderness of Vancouver DJ Kasey Riot even aptem, a documentary that traces Canada’s human touch, just like many of us might. pears as herself in the film, spinning troubling treatment of First Nations, Check out… Slotting into the category of commanding- her own beats after Crouch’s DJ Sam STRAIGHT.COM and B.C. filmmaker O. Corbin Salekbut-seldom-seen is Vancouver itself, finally get- Beta leaves the podium. It’s one of en’s debut, Patterson’s Wager, a charmVisit our website ting the chance to shine—really shine—on the many scenes in the hazy, neon-lit ing comedy about a man with precogfor the latest big screen. Jones erases any lingering doubts club, where the music is constantly nitive abilities, will also be shown in reviews and local movie news about the film’s setting by trading in ambigu- pounding and the environment noththe lead-up to National Canadian Film ous skylines and snapshots of a battered Geor- ing short of celebratory and supportive. Day next Wednesday (April 20). gia Viaduct for a story line that not only walks “I’m really proud of that,” says Jones, It’s a big feat for a film that was made for viewers through some of the city’s most beloved “not only did we make a film that’s from a female pretty much peanuts and premiered less than six ’hoods, but unabashedly works them into the point of view that’s saying important things, but months ago at the Whistler Film Festival. “I don’t dialogue, too. also that we represented a woman in electronic know what we were really expecting, because, you “I basically just picked places that I go to, and music on-screen positively.” know, we’re such a little film,” Crouch says. “But that I sit at, and that I spend time at myself,” the If the sentiment sounds familiar, it is. In fact, the reaction has been so overwhelmingly positive. affable filmmaker explains, “and I think that Jones consciously chose to have Sam portrayed And everyone has been so nice that we’ve joked, created a very personal view of Vancouver, as as a DJ within the electronic-dance-music biz, especially in Whistler, that we couldn’t stop saying opposed to the tourist view of, like, ‘We’re gon- a profession that, like film, offers far fewer op- ‘Thank you’ enough to people, because people were na give you the best skylines.’ No, I gave you the portunities to women than it does to their male being so lovely and saying such nice things.” skyline that I saw every day in Kitsilano; that’s counterparts. This sorry state is confirmed by “It’s a love letter to Vancouver,” adds Jones, “and what I wanted to show.” Crouch, when we inquire about what she’d like to it’s so nice that people will get to read that letter.” Admittedly, FSM’s recognizable backdrop see improved in the local film industry. also has much to do with its budget. As a par“More women,” she answers almost immedi- Canadian Film Week runs from Saturday (April 16) ticipant in Canadian producer Avi Federgreen’s ately, adding that she’d love to see more money to next Wednesday (April 20) at the Vancity Theatre.
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The projector
1 2 Teenage wasteland SLEEPING GIANT Andrew Cividino’s debut feature is no
Meatballs. Set during an otherwise idyllic summer, Sleeping Giant is a shockingly honest portrait of teen life. “It’s a film for adults, but I really hope young people will see it,” Cividino told the Straight. “I absolutely would recommend this film for 15-yearolds. What’s amazing to me is that they’re just as astute at picking up the subtleties and complexities of these relationships. I don’t think you should shield people from what they’re actually already living.” Read the full interview at Straight.com. -
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What to see and where to see it
A master class
THEORY OF OBSCURITY Going to see
the Residents at the Rio Theatre on Thursday (April 14)? Make sure you catch the screening of this great 2015 doc beforehand for a remarkably candid, if playful, peek behind the iconic eyeballs.
THE SMALLS: FOREVER IS A LONG TIME One of the least classifiable and most
loved bands out of Edmonton receives the documentary treatment, screening as part of Canadian Film Week at the Vancity on Friday (April 15) and Monday (April 18).
STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
Spock was calling us out on environmental degradation way back in 1986. Fascinating! Have a whale of a time when the best of the Star Trek features beams into the Cinematheque on Sunday (April 17).
HIGH-RISE Get a sneak peek at your favourite film of the year (trust us…) when High-Rise screens at the Vancity Theatre on Friday (April 15), with an in-person intro by director Ben Wheatley. Even more exciting: Wheatley hosts a master class the next day. We were already sold after Kill List and A Field in England, but Wheatley’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel, featuring Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons, cements the Brit as one of the most daring and accomplished filmmakers of his generation. Details at www.viff.org/. APRIL 14 – 21 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 19
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It’s movie night in Canada
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here are 12 sterling examples of Canuck cinema coming to the Vancity Theatre’s Canadian Film Week celebrations. Here are some of our choices.
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Aim For The Roses
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John Bolton, Canada
Every artist has his great white whale. For Canadian daredevil Ken Carter, it was jumping the St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. Vancouver composer Mark Haney’s quest was writing a concept album for solo double bass inspired by Carter’s legendary stunt, and for filmmaker John Bolton, it was combining all of these things into a musical docudrama called Aim For The Roses.
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THE PASS SYSTEM Just as the full, wrenching details of the residentialschool system are starting to sink into society at large, out comes this documentary illuminating another ugly hidden chapter of Canadian history. For almost 60 years, Indian Act officials around the Prairies refused to let First Nations people move freely, requiring them to get a signed pass even for the most mundane trips offreserve. Filmmaker Alex Williams manages to build a solid yet artfully cast case, sometimes simply zooming in and lingering on the few remaining passes themselves (signed for everything from hospital visits to hunting). Amplifying the atmosphere are Vancouver cellist Cris Derksen’s intensely haunting, driving strings. Witness and expert accounts point a damning finger at authorities right back to John A. Macdonald himself—all of whom, it’s proven in documents, knew the pass system was a violation of Canadian law. The practice hampered natives’ ability to carry on day-to-day business or make a living. But mostly it reminded them constantly of their lack of power, their every move scrutinized. The price of violation? Jail. In the film’s most disturbing segment, elders remember the horrors and loneliness of being locked away in residential schools, and how parents were never granted the requested passes to visit their children there. Troubling stuff, coming out in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. April 20 (11:15 a.m.); April 21 (8:05 p.m.) > JANET SMITH PATTERSON’S WAGER As Charles,
the great Fred Ewanuick predictably carries this amiable local debut from writer-director O. Corbin Saleken, while Chelah Horsdal (The Man in
Audrey (Chelah Horsdal) and Charles (Fred Ewanuick) face a small problem with the paranormal in the amiable Vancouver-shot indie, Patterson’s Wager.
the High Castle) is hardly a slouch in her role as his put-upon fiancée, Audrey. Actually, Horsdal’s response to a highly unusual relationship problem—Charles can see two minutes into the future—is a model of tempered sweetness and compassion. Same goes for Saleken’s receptiveness to his supernatural theme, which ends up going further than you thought it would. April 17 (8:25 p.m.); April 20 (5:30 p.m.) > ADRIAN MACK THE LION’S PATH Finance-school
dropout Alex follows his girlfriend, Jade, to the rural retreat she’s been attending, where former professor and Nietzsche devotee Gabriel conducts experiential therapy designed to pursue “the truth”. Gabriel’s increasingly unconventional and questionable methods trigger tensions as Alex becomes conflicted and confused about the rules and conduct of the cultlike community. Strong performances from the cast, skilled pacing, and solid direction make this
quiet thriller a notable and engaging debut from Quebec filmmaker Stéphan Beaudoin. April 20 (12:50 p.m.)
> CRAIG TAKEUCHI
TAKING SHELTER Once you sync
up with its rat-a-tat groove, this is the best way to kill 100 Canadian minutes—augmented with weed and a maxi-bag of Old Dutch All Dressed. Jonathan Culp stitched together over 450 tax-shelter-era Canucksploitation movies to fashion a wild sort-of narrative in which perpetually morphing iterations of Donald Sutherland and Maury Chaykin (among many others) take on a plot involving UFOs, boobs, and exploding phones. Plot might be the wrong word; Taking Shelter is more of a portal, or a working time machine, or some sort of temporal-lobe-seizure-inducing form of trance technology with Christopher Plummer pulling the levers. April 16 (10:15 p.m.); April 20 (9:30 p.m.) > AM
Staring death in the eye Sharlto Copley assures us that everybody made it out of Hardcore Henry alive
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Kirsten Johnson has been the eyes and mind behind some of the most iconic documentary films ever made, including Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Whether she is shooting nurse midwives in an obstetrics clinic in Nigeria or a boxing match in New York City, Johnson reveals through her own eyes the very nature of perception, of what it means to be alive and seeing the world. DOXA is very proud to close the 2016 festival with this celebration of documentary cinema in all its beauty and fragile humanity. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS WED MAY 11
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Pistol Shrimps Brent Hodge, USA/Canada
For anyone who ever dreamed of glory on the b-ball court. Well, perhaps not glory, but just basic competence, here come the Pistol Shrimps! A moribund women’s intramural basketball league in Los Angeles is the unlikely setting for a Hoosiers-style sports story, but stranger things have happened in the City of Angels. DOXA is very happy to welcome back hometown hero Brent Hodge (A Brony Tale) with a light-hearted film that nevertheless packs a serious wallop.
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League of Exotique Dancers Rama Rau, Canada
Who says sex stops at a certain age? Certainly not the women in Rama Rau’s riotous romp through the life and times of the pioneering women of burlesque. Their names read like a star-studded universe of raunchiness! These legendary women fought their way to fame and fortune in little more than heels, a feather boa, and a big old sassy grin. INCLUDES LIVE BURLESQUE PERFORMANCE
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t looks like the work of clinically brilliant methheads on a guerrilla-filmmaking bender, so it’s reassuring to learn that there were some rules on the set of Hardcore Henry. “The big thing between [director] Ilya Naishuller and I was that no one must die making this film,” says Sharlto Copley, chuckling. “It sounds crazy now, but it was just a logical conversation at the time.” Incredibly, total casualties on the Moscow-based feature added up to five stitches and a chipped tooth. “Eighty-five stunt days,” Copley says, praising the extra care and attention everybody brought to the set. “Plus, Russian men are not normal men. They’re sort of cyborgs. They’re tougher than normal humans. There’s that.” The trim, healthy-looking star is in Vancouver on a real-estate-buying venture—“I relate to the place culturally in a big way. I would have been an ice-hockey player if I’d grown up here,” says the South African native, who spent some time in White Rock when he was 11—but the PR work never ends. And so the Straight finds itself meeting with the actor in a West End hotel to discuss the paradigm-busting action film (now playing). Copley also takes an executive-producer credit on Hardcore Henry, which exploded out of TIFF’s Midnight Madness program last year on a fireball of buzz—justifiably, as it happens. But it could have been an absolute disaster, deaths or no deaths. “It was hands down the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” declares Copley, with an utterly convincing wince. “Oh, it was so difficult. It was so difficult.” The purest action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road, Hardcore Henry was made infinitely more demanding by its central conceit: it’s all shot from Henry’s POV. And once he wakes up in a sinister cybernetic lab with new limbs and no memories, Henry doesn’t stop running, leaping, killing, or falling thousands of feet from helicopters for the next 90 minutes. “A stuntman goes to a very Zen-like place,” Copley begins. “He doesn’t want to think about having to say lines or anything. Now you’re going to that stunt guy in his Zen place, and you say, ‘I’m going to strap this GoPro rig to your head. It restricts your field of view like a horse with blinkers on, and while you’re set on
Actor Sharlto Copley (right) locks and loads with his director and newest blood brother, Ilya Naishuller (left).
fire, you need to film the other guy who’s set on fire for as long as possible, until it’s getting too hot for you, and then you bail out through the window. Don’t break the GoPro! Get yourself out, and remember to swing back and film the other guy running out of the bus on fire, and do all that in one go.’ ” Copley pauses. “You ask that of a stuntman? Dude…” Copley himself takes the role of a sort-of companion to Henry called Jimmy, who shows up to offer advice and leaven proceedings with some much needed (if exceedingly dark) humour. But he was there for every excruciating minute of production on this remarkable and highly risky movie, from gestation onward. “I knew this film would either break us and we’d never speak to each other again by the end, or we were gonna come out of it as blood brothers,” Copley says, with a broad smile. “And the latter is, thankfully, the way it went.” Plus, they’re both still alive! -
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The secret life of the Canadian teenager RE VIEW S SLEEPING GIANT Starring Nick Serino. Rated 14A
Sleeping Giant should come with
2 its own warning label. On the
surface, its plot suggests any number of lighthearted movies about frivolous teens whiling away the summer at the family cottage. But if you’re expecting a warmed-over, teen version of Stand by Me, you’re in for a shock. Although there are fleeting moments of humour, loyalty, and tenderness in writer-director Andrew Cividino’s debut, this is a film that draws its raw power from fearlessly exposing the ugly side of adolescence. Sleeping Giant explores the tenuous relationship between three teenage boys vacationing on the Canadian side of Lake Superior. Adam (Jackson Martin) is a wimpy, emotionally insecure 15-year-old who’s attracted to the reckless nature of two boys staying with their grandmother in a neighbouring cabin. Riley (Reece Moffett) and Nate (Nick Serino) are the kind of troublemakers your mother always warned you about. The foul-mouthed Nate gets off on the kind of brutal honesty that’s meant to do serious damage. His cousin Riley is a little more sensitive. But when Nate becomes jealous of the relationship Riley’s developing with Adam and his family, he makes it his mission to ruin the friendship. Nate gets his chance when he discovers a secret about Adam’s father (David Disher), an aging hipster who enjoys playing the cool dad but doesn’t have the ethics to back it up. What follows is by turns subtle, vicious, and heartbreaking. It’s enough to leave you feeling sad, hollow, and grateful for the fact that you’ll never see 15 again. > JOHN LEKICH
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! Starring Blake Jenner. Rated 14A
Austin auteur Richard Linkla-
2 ter has done an unusually good
job of alternating personal projects, such as Boyhood and the Before Sunrise series, with commercially successful hired-gun projects, like Bad News Bears and School of Rock. His skeptical but essentially optimistic view of human nature shines almost effortlessly on Everybody Wants Some!!, with double exclamations courtesy of an especially deep Van Halen song. Here, the Led Zep– minded ’70s high-schoolers of his breakthrough Dazed and Confused are updated to disco-dancing collegiates of 1980, with the new movie a consistently funny, sometimes introspective riff on Linklater’s own experience of setting out on a baseball scholarship. The film’s ball-pitching freshman at an unnamed Texas university is lanky, easygoing Jake, played by Glee veteran Blake Jenner. Assigned a rundown house near campus, Jake and his teammates fall quickly into a jittery alliance of “fuckwittery”, as he calls it. Ruthless competition is the gene they all share. But standouts include a cocky playboy (Ryan Guzman), the snooty team captain (Tyler Hoechlin), a slow-moving farm boy (Will Brittain), a Zen-minded stoner and fellow pitcher (Wyatt Russell), and a pipe-smoking, Kerouac-reading theorist of everything (Glen Powell). Most have horrible mustaches. The team’s lone African-American, played by newcomer J. Quinton Johnson (who also penned the redo of “Rapper’s Delight” that plays over the final credits), is Jake’s guide to the various groups on campus. There are quick background nods to the upcoming presidential contest between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, but no mention of the Iran hostage crisis, nor any racial incidents, and this feels intentional. Linklater has narrowed his focus to that of one good guy leaving his boyhood behind, how he meshes with a ready-made soci-
A dangerously high cliff on the shores of Lake Superior is where the adolescent traumas of Sleeping Giant are played out.
ety, and the escape from bro-ness offered by the smart arts major (Zoey Deutch) he encounters on his first day at school. John Hughes it ain’t, but you’ll remember these kids just as if you grew up with them. > KEN EISNER
A SECOND CHANCE Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. In Danish, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable
Hunky Game of Throner Niko-
2 laj Coster-Waldau helps to carry
this provocative drama, which needs his fine performance to ward off incredulity. He’s a cop, Andreas, seen shaking down a violent junkie in the film’s opening scenes. That’s when he notices a shit-covered baby lying unattended on the perp’s bathroom floor. Told you it was provocative. As it happens, Andreas has a newborn of his own bringing equal measures of joy and insomnia to his home life, depicted by director Susanne Bier (In a Better World) as a fairy-light-strewn oasis of middleclass comfort. We know Bier is priming us for something awful, but it’s probably not what you think, and could be worse. Suffice it to say that endangered infants provide the lowest form of audience manipulation, something A Second Chance exploits to truly excruciating effect until the film’s midway point—and in less visceral but still painful ways after. Despite the broad nature of the audience abuse going on here, Bier and her regular collaborator, writer Anders Thomas Jensen, rely on subtleties of character to bring on the film’s ensuing twists. Nikolaj Lie Kaas dominates his scenes as the brutal wife-beater Tristan; Maria Bonnevie is less sure as Andreas’s opaque wife. Ulrich Thomsen brings a kind of Stellan Skarsgård lite to his underwritten role as Andreas’s alcoholic partner, while it’s impossible to ignore that if we scrape all the grime off Tristan’s strung-out wife (and mother to that shit-baby), there’s a Victoria’s Secret model underneath (May Andersen). Therein lies either the strength or the fatal flaw of A Second Chance, which Bier wants to present as a primary-coloured parable about the many shades of grief that come with parenthood, appended to a more obvious riff on class prejudice. It works because it’s so hysterically committed to hurting the viewer, but whether or not that’s good is strictly between you, your therapist, and your ability to suspend disbelief. > ADRIAN MACK
MILES AHEAD Starring Don Cheadle. Rated 14A
Of all the music bios sprung on
2 us lately, Don Cheadle’s study
of late-period Miles Davis comes closest to capturing the POV of a major artist, even if it’s one in decline. Although he little resembles the lithe trumpet man, a fashion and
music trendsetter well beyond the jazz world, Cheadle—who also directed and cowrote—masters his hero’s wary demeanour and distinctive rasp. Davis’s profanity-laden whisper came from a sidewalk screaming match that’s unseen here, although the timejumping tale does show him getting beaten bloody by NYPD’s finest some years later. Much of Miles Ahead is set in 1979, when the restless innovator, in his decadent, coke-sniffing phase, seemed played out. Ewan McGregor’s hustling Scottish journalist is a fictional version of the more prosaically Jewish writer Eric Nisenson, befriended by Miles at the latter’s low point. The more outlandishly presented events here are eventually revealed to be merely the journalist’s interpretation, letting our filmmakers off the factual hook. The soundtrack is faultlessly comprehensive, and Cheadle stages some stellar re-creations, most notably in a large-group studio recording led by a convincing Gil Evans (Jeffrey Grover). The novice director obviously prefers tangible external conflicts to the creative kind. So we get driveby shootings, various fistfights, Phil Spector–level gun-wielding, and an emphasis on Davis’s violently controlling relationship with dancer Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi). Cicely Tyson actually helped the trumpet genius clean up and start playing again, but she doesn’t show up. (Taylor is one of the film’s executive producers.) More crucially absent is any explanation of how the chip on Miles’s shoulder got so heavy. American racism is evident, but the film could have nodded to its subject’s unusually wealthy upbringing, which left him forever trying to prove how “street” he was. Still, Cheadle’s well-shot and sharply edited vision is rich with jazz lore and majestic music. It does, as Miles would say, “come at it with some attitude”.
Sandu’s business helps people navigate the tricky, government-run car-insurance business. When he gets home from work, he learns that Laura has died under suspicious
circumstances. Yet he says nothing about the earlier encounter to his wife and business partner (Oxana Moravec) or their young son (Ionut Bora). He tells even less to police. When Vali finds he hasn’t been fingered, he begins ingratiating himself into the Patrascus’ bourgeois equilibrium. First hanging out with their technology-obsessed boy, he then brings them his car business, allowing us to see the pleasant life Sandu maybe thinks he has to lose. That “maybe” is because veteran writer-director Radu Muntean never clarifies his characters’ motivations. In its quiet accretion of everyday details, with key events happening offscreen or on the obscure margins, the beautifully shot tale is equal parts Dostoyevsky and Chantal Akerman. Sandu’s ironic cellphone ring is the voice of late dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, so is the movie about how ordinary people accommodate terror, even after it’s gone? Or is this more like the legend of the Kitty Genovese murder, during which at least 38 New Yorkers purportedly “didn’t want to get involved”? As the older movie’s theme song suggested, these see next page
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ONE FLOOR BELOW Directed by Radu Muntean. In Romanian, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable
In Otto Preminger’s 1944 classic
2 Laura, the absence of the title
character drives men mad. Something similar, if less noirish, happens in Romania’s slyly told One Floor Below. This Laura is never directly seen, in flashbacks or giant paintings (as in the earlier film), but she is heard by one Sandu Patrascu, a burly neighbour played by generic-looking but quietly powerful Teodor Corban. Walking his dog past Laura’s door in their sun-dappled Bucharest apartment block, he hears the young woman yelling at someone in an increasingly violent confrontation. The door opens and out steps a shifty-looking dude who eyeballs Sandu watching him. Guess what: the married Vali (Iulian Postelnicu) also lives in the building. APRIL 14 – 21 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 21
Then again, there’s not much life to this movie.
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questions remain “footsteps that you hear down the hall”.
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Starring Kevin Costner. Rated 14A
THE BOSS
If you’re wondering where the
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Starring Melissa McCarthy. Rated 14A
Melissa McCarthy proves herself a comedic hurricane in The Boss, but her crude gags make for a weird disconnect from the warm-and-fuzzy setup. “Vag-uvenation” and “dicksucking” jokes side by side with a story about Girl Guides selling brownies? Yeee-echhh. Admittedly, the absurdities of foulmouthed adults corrupting innocent kids can be funny—in an inappropriate way—as we’ve seen in flicks like the beyond-jaded Bad Santa. But here, creator McCarthy and her director husband, Ben Falcone, can’t decide what they want this movie to be. On one hand, you have McCarthy’s steely Michelle Darnell, a disgraced multimillionaire motivational speaker who’s as wild for F-bombs as she is for chunky jewellery. On the other, you have the single mom and kid Michelle turns to when she’s released from jail for white-collar crime: sweet Claire (Kristen Bell) and her Girl Guide daughter Rachel (Ella Anderson). Michelle takes Rachel’s troop on as a cause, helping them sell the crap out of their homebaked brownies and schooling them in the wonders of unbridled capitalism. It’s a mighty thin plot, only half livened up by a scheme by Michelle’s former squeeze, Renault (Peter Dinklage, getting freaky again), trying to steal the rights to the brownie biz. But even with a full-on, hair-pulling, face-punching Girl Guide fight thrown in, it’s not enough to sustain a movie. For her part, McCarthy lands a few big zingers and aces her usual outrageous physical gags. But her character just isn’t as complex or likable as the lovable yet filthy-mouthed underdogs she’s played in more successful Paul Feig comedies like Spy. Making matters worse, she’s dressed throughout
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Comedic force of nature Melissa McCarthy is a motivational speaker who keeps the neck covered while aiming well below the belt in The Boss.
the film in bizarre turtlenecks that pull up high around her chin and behind her ears. Online rumours suggest they’re hiding a neck brace, but it’s distracting as all hell. The Boss works best when it ventures off script. Take a deranged episode where Michelle tries to adjust Claire’s bra straps, which turns into an extended, and increasingly violent, boobshoving match: it’s the kind of warped, harmless, female-friendly slapstick that McCarthy excels at. Maybe she should just keep things above the waist.
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NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT Starring Kristine Cofsky. Rated PG
Certainly, there were mocku-
2 mentaries before This Is Spinal
Tap, but Rob Reiner made it look so easy that star Christopher Guest made a career out of picking apart social trends in pseudo-nonfiction style. Indeed, that trick is simple to emulate; just have unreliable narrators and fake experts face the camera and improvise around that. But it’s extremely hard to sustain, as proven by No Men Beyond This Point, which stretches an iffy concept past the breaking point, even at 80 minutes. Here, Vancouver writer-director Mark Sawers, who went down the mock-doc route in his
previous Camera Shy, constructs a world like our own except for the evolutionary kink of virgin births kicking in during the early 1950s. The lack of need for sperm donors, and the gradual shift to having daughters only, led to little use for what few men remained by the present day. That’s intriguing, I suppose, although it completely negates the element of human desire, with its messy complexities, that has so far marked most behaviour on earth. To assume that one sex would repudiate the other simply because their reproductive relationship ended pretty much negates everything we already know about life, birth control, pornography, and friends with benefits. For sci-fi speculation on the relatively sexless future of coupledom, you might do better with The Lobster, also currently playing, or any of the gender-exploring books of Ursula K. Le Guin. With its faux-archival footage (mixed with amusingly used real stuff), purposely shabby-looking “recreations”, and a dull foreground tale of opposites attracting, No Men at least suggests basic satire by flipping major dudes into second-class citizens while underlining the absurdity of resistance to same-sex marriage. But these ideas aren’t developed and, far worse, are rarely funny. Led by Kristine Cofsky, the large cast is good at being deadpan.
bled. We say “mostly” because Kevin Costner is actually quite good in his role as Jericho Stewart, a psychopath with the emotional gestalt of a fouryear-old. (His daddy threw him out of a car as a child, so now he’s a feral genius given the sci-fi maximumsecurity Hannibal Lecter treatment.) An amusing, if shockingly fraillooking, Tommy Lee Jones is the CIA scientist (Dr. Franks, geddit?) who “repatterns” Jericho’s brain with Ryan Reynolds’s memories, the latter returning from Deadpool to his customary role as box-office poison before getting snuffed in the first five minutes. In a small concession to realism, Franks argues in favour of experimenting on and then employing a conscience-free killing machine to do the agency’s work. Station chief Gary Oldman isn’t so sure, and phones in a performance to let us know. Costner is out there trying to find a bag of money and save the world from an antiglobalist “anarchist” bent on hacking America’s all-important defence shield, all while suffering pangs of humanity thanks to another man’s consciousness. It’s all handled competently enough, but Costner deserves a better script for his gruffly witty performance, which quotes rather explicitly from Frankenstein as it goes along. (He’s even got Boris Karloff’s art-deco haircut from 1934’s The Black Cat.) Behind the scenes, the three stars of this film might have reminisced a little sadly about the time they all made JFK together. Meanwhile, we can ponder who’s actually being repatterned around here, as Hollywood slimily insists once again that a grotesque concentration of global wealth and power is something worth protecting. That really is criminal. > ADRIAN MACK
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Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser are used to BY MIKE US IN G ER
moving between different worlds, the Croatians known as 2CELLOS as comfortable in the grand concert halls of Europe as they are hanging with rockers Elton John and Steve Vai. But there’s no disputing which musical world has been better to them in terms of finding an audience. Although the collaborators were first known as classical-music prodigies, they’ve become stars by giving the cello treatment to songs you’re more likely to hear on CFOX than on Deutsche Grammophon. Celloverse, the duo’s third and latest release, features heavier-than-heavy tracks by the likes of AC/DC (“Thunderstruck”), Iron Maiden (“The Trooper”), and Radiohead (“Street Spirit [Fade Out]”). Forget vocals: the record captures the beautiful bombast of the originals on, naturally, nothing but two cellos. Reached on tour in Southern California, Šulić acknowledges that classical and pop songs present different challenges from a technical standpoint. But there’s no question which genre is more taxing, the payoff being a tour that’s currently selling out soft-seaters across North America. “I would say that it’s definitely more exhausting playing pop and rock songs,” Šulić says with a laugh. “You sweat more and you really have to give it your all. Last year we had to cancel 16 of our U.S. shows because Stjepan had a neck injury—he had a disc hernia where a disc came out of his neck because of too much headbanging. So, yeah, playing what we do is more intense and tiring than playing, I dunno, Bach.” Sometimes, however, the goal is to bridge the two worlds. “It depends on the song, but if we play a U2 or Coldplay song, we play it in a classical manner,”
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Croatian virtuosos Luka Šulic and Stjepan Hauser work hard to give the cello treatment to music by the likes of AC/DC and Iron Maiden. Stephan Lupino photo.
appearances on Glee, so much exploring to do of our sound. With this and generally becom- one, about half the album was recorded in Las Vegas 2CELLOS’ classically trained stars have learned the draws of heavy ing pop-culture phe- in a hotel room. All the hits we do, like ‘Thundernomenons. Even before struck’ and ‘The Trooper’—the videos with the most metal, the benefits of YouTube, and the perils of headbanging the blizzard of atten- views on YouTube—were all recorded in the hotel Šulić notes. “The nuances and dynamics are tion, the men of 2CELLOS realized they were onto room, which is crazy. All you need is a vision of how things that we learned playing classical music.” something by reinventing hit pop and rock songs it should sound. Anything is possible today with a After occasionally crossing paths at cello re- for cello. The big challenge, though, was proving laptop—you don’t need fancy studios. Or equipcitals and camps during their formative years, they were more than one-off YouTube celebrities. ment. We realized that the less production we have, Šulić and Hauser found themselves studying in “We knew we had a really great arrangement the more successful our songs and videos are.” London, England, at the turn of last decade, both of ‘Smooth Criminal’, and a really powerful The only time 2CELLOS isn’t interested in on track for the classical circuit. video,” Šulić says. “And we knew that it would cutting back is when it plays live. Then, Šulić “We both come from musical families and had get attention from people, but we didn’t expect suggests, it’s time to go all-out—at least until really rigorous classical training,” Šulić reveals. it to blow up so quickly. Or that we were going discs get herniated. 2CELLOS may have started “We studied abroad in London, Vienna, and to blow up so fast—we only had that one on YouTube, but it’s since become famous Manchester with great teachers in great schools. song. That was the breakthrough, but for proving that taking the stage with We also entered and won many classical compe- then the real work started. We had nothing but two cellos doesn’t mean Check out… titions. We were seen as up-and-coming classical to develop from a YouTube sensaSTRAIGHT.COM you can’t put on a show. musicians who were trained to be soloists, to be tion into recording musicians and “We’ve really worked on finding a Visit our website chamber musicians. Somehow, though, we never a serious live act. There are many way to play all of our arrangements for morning-after had a project together until 2011. But we always YouTube sensations, but if you don’t live and making them attractive,” reviews and local arts news felt, because we are so strong as individuals, that build things up and work hard after Šulić says. “Our arrangements are if we did something together it would be really that, everything goes to waste.” very demanding, and technically special. And we were right. The minute we joined Šulić and Hauser are fiercely comspeaking, there are only two of us onforces, it just exploded like it was meant to be.” mitted to refi ning what’s made 2CELLOS stage, which can make things hard. It’s really The rise of 2CELLOS would start with Šulić and famous. Having found that collaborating with hard to entertain when it’s just two of you. Hauser getting together to fi lm a one-off video for Sky Ferreira and Elton John on 2012’s In2ition Our shows are really intense and exhausting, a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”. seemed like a departure from their roots, the because we have to play all the time, and then Featuring the two musicians furiously duelling two musicians went stripped-down for Cello- entertain while we are playing to really large on their cellos in what looks like Croatia’s regal verse, holing up together with nothing but a lap- crowds. It’s a constant process of learning and Diocletian’s Palace, the clip quickly went viral on top and their instruments. keeping it fresh.” YouTube. (It sits at over 18 million views today.) “The first album [2011’s 2CELLOS] we did in Before they knew it, the two were guest- Croatia and it was self-produced,” Šulić says. “The 2CELLOS plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on ing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, doing guest second one felt like we did it too soon—we still had Friday (April 15).
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Editor’s choice MASH-HAPPY Expect this Friday night’s FUSE party at the Vancouver Art Gallery to put a Mixmaster to different forms: guest curator Joyce Rosario (associate curator at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival) is, after all, working around the theme of the MashUp show on view across all four floors. Amid the events going on throughout the evening is okay.odd (shown here, with Aryo Khakpour; Tim Matheson photo): created by Hong Kong Exile’s Milton Lim, it’s a multimedia meditation session. Elsewhere, look for daring dance by Deanna Peters, Justine A. Chambers, Project Soul, and Natalie Gan, audio-visual light sculpture by Remy Siu, and much more. FUSE is at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Friday (April 15).
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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JAMES & JAMESY’S HIGH TEA (At Studio 1398 to April 17) Monty Python meets Dr. Seuss with these Fringe faves.
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THE INVISIBLE HAND (At the Cultch to April 23) Terrorism and international finance ripped right from today’s headlines.
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BRAHMS REQUIEM (At the Orpheum on April 16) A massive cathartic masterpiece being staged at VSO’s Spring Fest.
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EASTER EGGS (At Hot Art Wet City to April 30) Myth, picture books, and magic mix in artist Andrea Hooge’s amazing scratchboards.
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NANITCH (At Presentation House Gallery to June 26) Fascinating historical photos capture B.C. at the turn of the last century.
Guest pick
RULES FOR VANCOUVER Photographer Dina Goldstein, whose Gods of Suburbia runs at South Main (SOMA) Gallery as part of the Capture Photography Festival this month, is our guest artist this week. Here’s the work she recommends: “You have until May 1 to explore Rules for Vancouver, and share your thoughts about this conceptual text-based artwork through the Vancouver Biennale Twitter poll (twtpoll.com/vancouverrules). I am intrigued because this online, confidential medium allows for locals and visitors to say what they really think of Vancouver.” (During his International Artist Residency in 2014, British artist Peter Liversidge explored the city and created 60 proposals for artworks. Proposal # 49: I propose to write a set of Rules for Vancouver (twtpoll.com/vancouverrules) is one of the pieces on display at 10 transit shelters.) -
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Individual Poetry Slam finals. And, with a nod to the almost all-female crew that organized the fest, there is a special We Believe You Showcase and Open Mic devoted to female survivors of trauma (April 25 at the Cultch), plus a Femcees event at CafÊ Deux Soleils on April 28 and 29. There are also all kinds of mixed programs with an open attitude to almost any performance that celebrates the art of wordsmithing. Sara Bynoe has organized an edition of her tongue-in-cheek Teen Angst Poetry nights (at the Storm Crow Tavern on April 26), where performers read some of their most embarrassing poetry, essays, and journal writings from their highschool years. Ivan Coyote joins the There Be Monsters program with Kai Cheng Thom, Amber Dawn, and some local musicians for an evening of music and myth. Big names like Vancouver’s poet laureate Rachel Rose, Outer Harbour author Wade Compton, and Ojibwa First Nation author Richard Wagamese mix in other programs with diverse styles. (See versesfestival.ca/.)
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Mike Gill, Meghan Gardiner, and Carmela Sison hand in some of the strong performances in Dead Metaphor’s tale of a sniper’s new gig. Emily Cooper photo.
Dead Metaphor pulls off a lethal comedy T HEAT RE DEAD METAPHOR By George F. Walker. Directed by Chelsea Haberlin. A Firehall Arts Centre production. At the Firehall Arts Centre on Wednesday, April 6. Continues until April 23
In this script, a Canadian soldier returns from Afghanistan, where he was a sniper. He has a hard time getting a job until he finds a way to exploit his lethal talents. This is a comedy. It works. In Act 1 of George F. Walker’s 2013 script, it’s hard to identify what the story is about, but Act 2 comes into focus worthy of a sharpshooter. The humour is darkly hilarious throughout, and the characters—as written, and mostly as performed in this Firehall Arts Centre production—are irresistibly eccentric. Dean, the young vet, is feeling extra pressure to get a job because his wife, Jenny, is pregnant. When he goes to see Oliver, a career counsellor, Oliver lands him a gig as an assistant to his spouse, Helen, a right-wing politician. Meghan Gardiner, who plays Helen, knocks it out of the park. Somebody give her an award. Right now. Comedy is all about dedication to illogic, and Gardiner commits every cell of her being to Helen’s Machiavellian lunacy. When Oliver pitches Dean for the job as her flunky, he notes that it would look good to have a vet on staff. Helen replies: “That would be easier to sell if he had lost a limb or something.” Everything about this performance—the burnished appearance, killer timing, and lethal soullessness—is perfect. Alec Willows is also some kind of wonderful as Hank, Dean’s lefty dad, whose mind is rapidly being swallowed by a brain tumour. Willows has a whiplash, smart-ass delivery that makes even the simplest line work. Talking about his barbecue, Hank says, “It’s amazing how things rot away when you don’t give a shit.” With that sentence, Willows brings the house down. Playing Hank’s wife, Frannie, Donna Spencer is the only weak link in the cast. Her plodding delivery doesn’t work for this material, and her skills simply don’t match those of the pros she’s on-stage with. Fortunately, Jovanni Sy hits the right notes as the nerdy but increasingly desperate Oliver. Begging Helen to quit politics and run away to Europe, he gets the play’s best line: “You can study art and the lyric poets. In a year or two, you’ll be fully human again.” In a no-nonsense, on-the-money performance, Carmela Sison plays Jenny, Dean’s wife. And, at the centre of the whole thing, there’s Mike Gill as the soldier. Gill gets all of the comedy out of Dean’s doglike straightforwardness, and all of the depth out of the conflict that lurks underneath it. In his excellent set, Lauchlin Johnston places furniture amid war rubble.
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And Johnston’s lighting combines to powerful effect with Troy Slocum’s sound. Chelsea Haberlin is a director on a roll these days: with Doost and Gruesome Playground Injuries, she has opened three shows in just over two weeks. In terms of overall vision and execution, this one is prime. > COLIN THOMAS
THE INVISIBLE HAND By Ayad Akhtar. Directed by Richard Wolfe. A Cultch presentation of a Pi Theatre production. At the Cultch’s Historic Theatre on Wednesday, April 6. Continues until April 23
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liness to The Invisible Hand, a play that investigates two of the western world’s big preoccupations: Islamic terrorism and financial corruption. Ayad Akhtar’s taut play is set in Pakistan, where Nick Bright, an American bank officer, is being held hostage by agents of Imam Saleem. The kidnappers have two problems: they’ve got the wrong man (they were actually after Nick’s boss), and the Americans won’t negotiate for Nick’s release because Imam Saleem has just been declared a terrorist. But things don’t seem to be too bad for Nick at the outset: in the opening scene, we see one of his captors, Dar, trimming Nick’s nails and then recounting how, by following Nick’s advice to buy low and sell high, he has made a tidy sum on his cousin’s potatoes—and prudently converted his rupees into more stable American dollars. That story is a microcosm of the play’s larger plot. Nick persuades his less friendly captors, Bashir and Imam Saleem, that he is worth more to them alive than dead: he has $3 million in an offshore account that he can parlay into a much larger amount by playing the market. Imam Saleem agrees to the deal, on the condition that Nick’s hands never touch his laptop; instead, Bashir will do the trading according to Nick’s instruction, in the process gaining an education in market economics. This setup requires a certain suspension of disbelief, but the eagerness with which radical anticapitalists latch on to the lure of big money may be part of Akhtar’s point. And though some of the dialogue feels like it’s drawn from an Intro to Economics lecture, there’s no shortage of dramatic tension as the balance of power among the characters is constantly in flux. Director Richard Wolfe helms an assured and handsome production, and all four members of the cast deliver solid performances. Craig Erickson’s Nick lives and breathes trading; he wants to save his life, yes, but he’s also excited about sharing his knowledge. With his imposing stature and seething anger, Munish Sharma’s Bashir is credibly threatening, but he’s also a keen student. see next page
Craig Erickson and Munish Sharma battle it out in The Invisible Hand’s smart tale about the kidnapping of a bank officer in Pakistan. Tim Matheson photo.
As Imam Saleem, Shaker Paleja is a study in high status; his measured delivery of every word shows that the imam is firmly in command—at least for now. Conor Wylie is convincing as Dar, whose actions are largely controlled by others. David Roberts’s set suggests a warren of clay walls connected to the surprisingly cozy room Nick is being kept in. Gordon Grdina’s gorgeously evocative original music and Alan Brodie’s lighting help to ratchet up the tension. The Invisible Hand doesn’t offer any easy answers to the problems it explores, but it’s engaging, thoughtprovoking, and sure to stimulate lengthy postshow discussions. > KATHLEEN OLIVER
DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER By Marc Camoletti. Adapted by Robin Hawdon. Originally directed by Ashlie Corcoran. Revival directed by Heather Cant. At the Gateway Theatre on Friday, April 8. Continues until April 23
Don’t Dress for Dinner is full
2 of talented actors—and it’s still
boring. Without them, it would have been excruciating. Marc Camoletti’s script is a standard-issue sex farce. Bernard and Jacqueline live in a chic converted barn a couple of hours outside Paris. Jacqueline is going to visit her mother, and Bernard plans to have his lover, Suzanne, up for the weekend. Bernard’s best friend, Robert, will be there too, as a decoy. But Robert is Jacqueline’s lover, so, when she finds out he’s coming to the house, she fakes illness and cancels her plans with her mom. Further complicating matters, Bernard has hired a cook named Suzette. Getting the two Suzies confused, Robert thinks that the cook is Bernard’s lover, and the plot launches into an ever-more-complicated web of lies and confusion.
If any one of these characters had dared to tell the truth, the play would have ended quickly and we all could have gone home. But the characters are all shallow and deceitful, so we had to spend two hours in their company. Besides being shallow, the world of the play is classist and sexist. The working-class characters, the cook and her husband, are slyly moneygrubbing. And the mistresses trade sex for gifts. Farces can be fun; I’m a big fan of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor, which is about artistic temperament rather than sex. But Don’t Dress for Dinner is so inane that you’ve got to ask, “Who the hell cares?” Fortunately, Todd Thomson (Bernard) plays the copious physical comedy with balletic grace. And almost everybody in the cast is strong. Krista Colosimo’s Suzanne pouts fetchingly, a brunette Marilyn Monroe. Kirk Smith skillfully hits all the levels of Robert’s mania and exhaustion. Alison Deon’s Jacqueline is alert but confused. And Tess Degenstein has fun as Suzette, the maid, the best role in the script. Suzette is the audience’s surrogate, the sharpeyed outsider. Farce requires a particular style and energy and, under Ashlie Corcoran’s direction, this cast does a solid job with the rhythms, although the physical business is sometimes over-the-top. And Corcoran has applied an odd convention: the maid and her husband speak in French accents, although no one else does. At least I think the husband’s accent is supposed to be French; as voiced by Beau Dixon, it almost defies identification. Farces are theatrical machines. This one keeps whirring, but it doesn’t go anywhere. > COLIN THOMAS
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Ballet digs movingly into history D ANC E GOING HOME STAR A Royal Winnipeg Ballet production. At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday, April 7. No remaining performances
Intense is not a word you’d nor-
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performance. But Going Home Star is haunting and distressing, not just because of its subject matter—the lasting trauma of Canada’s residential-school system—but because of the visceral, metaphorical way it is staged. It’s compelling and thought-provoking, and definitely not your average night out at the ballet. Projected video of train tracks and starry skies—both symbols of escape for imprisoned schoolchildren—inundates you, the imagery made more acute by Christos Hatzis’s driving music. Layering urgent rhythms and strings, the soundtrack is punctuated by Tanya Tagaq’s breathless throat singing, and even, at one point, real spoken survivor stories. On-stage, clergymen in sinister black robes with semisadomasochistic design touches circle like vultures around students. An urban native woman loses herself in the subway rush and one-night stands. A group of spiritual “Star Children” lift a frozen boy to the night sky.
Choreographer Mark Godden took on a loaded assignment: staging a piece about the indigenous tragedy using what is generally considered a white, European art form. But the nonliteral-minded Godden turns out to have been a good choice for the project, his abstract ideas, theatrical-cinematic approach, and penchant for symbolism a surprising but welcome match for subject matter that can’t be reduced or literalized. The venture was a risk for the company, but its close work with aboriginal advisers and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission seems to have paid off here. And the commitment of the company is obvious at every turn. Sophia Lee is fiercely focused as Annie, the urban hairdresser who spends her off-hours amid drugs and meaningless sex, until the homeless man/ trickster Gordon (a powerful Liang Xing) slowly reveals the collective history they share. Alanna McAdie and Yosuke Mino are subtly moving as the two schoolchildren whose stories he shows her through visions. Godden gives them life through choreography that’s never showy, integrating the everyday (watch Annie come to life, lying on the floor, from her literal slumber) and, at one point, judicious use of aboriginal dance vocabulary.
It doesn’t all work. You may need author Joseph Boyden’s extensive synopsis to understand every plot detail, or the program’s First Nations symbol guide to understand bigger set pieces like a turtle shell. The show’s delirious second half, a dreamlike reckoning with the colonial history that led to the residential schools, includes sparkly ship-shaped headgear and a ballet parody that feel a touch too campy in this context. And it is difficult to suggest the ugliness of child abuse using a form as beautiful as ballet. Still, there are so many transcendent, visually inspired moments that you will be grateful this company took the risks it did. By the end, as Godden interweaves overwhelming music with real imagery of forgotten children and f lames, you may find yourself deeply moved. Nothing about this production feels like your usual ballet show. The Tsatsu Stalqayu Coastal Wolf Pack began the opening night with their chilling strains and drumbeats, and led us out of the theatre. The whole evening feels important, and it’s a unique way to bridge cultures. It’s story ballet reimagined in an extremely provocative way. Like I said, intense.
Redefines “Chinese music” with w groundbreaking collaborations 8pm, April 21, 2016 Western Front April 22-24, 2016 Roundhouse
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NOW orchestra musicians meet improvisers from Asia, suona & bagpipe, Chinese mouth organ & saxophone Paul Plimley & Shih Yang Lee (Taiwan) - 2 of the most creative pianists from the west & the east
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Fielding show a certifiable trip COM E D Y AN EVENING WITH NOEL FIELDING At the Vogue Theatre on Saturday, April 9
I think someone slipped some acid into my Pabst
2 Blue Ribbon on April 9 at An Evening With Noel
Fielding at the Vogue. Everything started out normal. The British star of The Mighty Boosh came out, did some crowd work, talked about being in Vancouver as a kid, and got about doing standup. He spoke of the perils of aging—the 42-yearold now finds himself walking with his hands behind his back—in his typically manic style, pacing around and constantly commenting on his process like a chav Andy Kindler. So far, so normal. A sip or two later and he was telling us about a dream he had where he was a tea bag. A herbal one, at that. I’m not sure. Things were getting hazy. I was disoriented. That led to a story about his wife leaving him for a triangle. A triangle? These scribblings in my notebook are getting more and more indecipherable. Next, he was doing a bit as a chicken-man. There was no payoff to it. He said, in his self-referential way, “I’m not sure if this is standup comedy or a mental breakdown.” I hear you, Noel. And then things got really weird. A large animated moon joined in on the show. And then his understudy, a fat Antonio Banderas dressed as Zorro, entered from
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The Chamber Choir and the Iseler Singers Two Great Choirs
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GOOD PEOPLE David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy that explores why some people manage to escape from the situations into which they are born and some don’t. To Apr 24, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Info www.artsclub.com/.
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GO WILD Just as the world awaits the opening of the new, buzzed-about movie The Jungle Book from director Jon Favreau, Carousel Theatre puts its own creative, kid-friendly spin on the classic story. In the Granville Island company’s playful rendition, the jungle exists amid a playground of monkey bars and slides. It’s a familiar setting, but the old characters are all there: Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Akela the wolf, and of course the boy Mowgli. The show growls onto the stage from Sunday (April 17) to May 1 at the Waterfront Theatre. DEAD METAPHOR Chelsea Haberlin directs George F. Walker’s play about an ex-sniper who returns to Canada from Afghanistan and struggles to find work. To Apr 23, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info www.firehall artscentre.ca/.
THE INVISIBLE HAND Canadian premiere of playwright Ayad Akhtar’s drama about a kidnapped American trader in Pakistan. To Apr 23, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/events/ the-invisible-hand/. DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER Marc Camoletti’s bawdy bedroom farce. To Apr 23, 8-11 pm, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Info www.gate waytheatre.com/dinner/. THE VALLEY The Arts Club Theatre presents Joan MacLeod’s play about the contradictory attempts to balance care and public safety. To May 7, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. HIGH TEA The Vancouver Fringe Festival presents an interactive show about two men who struggle to maintain their hold on reality when the world is submerged in tea. To Apr 17, 8-9 pm, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $25, info www.vancouver fringe.com/fringe-presents/. DIRTY OLD WOMAN An older woman attempt to navigate the dangerous world of dating a younger man. To Apr 24, The
DANCE 2THIS WEEK SUSPEND: SFU STUDENT DANCE PERFORMANCES One-night-only studentled production features new choreography by Clara Chow and Chelsea Goddard and original music composed by Chris Blaber Apr 15, Studio D (SFU Woodward’s, 149 W. Hastings). Tix $15/5, info www.facebook. com/events/206466133064000/. DANCE ALLSORTS: RAICES Y ALAS
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ALL AT SEA Aficionados of traditional choral harmony might be nonplussed by overtone singing, in which a single human voice can sound two or even three distinct pitches. Manitoba-born Kiva Simova specializes in reconciling the two forms, however, and when she joins Vancouver’s own musica intima for Voyages, at St. James Hall this Friday (April 15), we can expect a beautiful, even mystical program of atmospheric works about the ocean, the sky, and space. Plus, yodelling. Who could resist? FLAMENCO Premiere of táctil, a new creation by Raices y Alas Flamenco. Apr 17, 2 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts &
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the Railway Club closes its doors for the last time, Vancouver music fans are asking how to fill the void. Fortunately, we might already have the answer. Spanning 237 cities worldwide, Sofar Sounds is a global network that connects musicians with attentive audiences, established in 2009 in London, England. A typical Sofar show features three to five artists playing stripped-down sets in a pop-up location. Anybody can apply online for a free spot on the guest list, with Sofar releasing the mystery address to attendees just before the show. Alongside local bands, secret artists like Bastille, Dry the River, and (bizarrely) Robert Pattinson have all performed Sofar shows in people’s living rooms. Vancouver offers a unique take on this model. Hampered by tight curfews and bylaws, Lotusland’s Sofar branch has set up shop not only in private houses but also office spaces, and even a leather-shoe workshop, in its quest to showcase the city’s best bands. Audiences are typically between 60 and 100 people. Never the same twice, the makeshift locations are redefining Vancouver’s live-music scene. “In Canada and the U.S., performance venues aren’t as ingrained in the culture,” Catherine Hodgson, director of Sofar Vancouver, says by phone. “We don’t have a network of locations like somewhere in Europe, for example. Shifting concerts into private and outdoor settings is the logical step for Vancouver’s musical landscape. We’ve done shows from bar patios to the city’s Bitcoin headquarters. It’s not just a movement that’s happening in basements and garages here; it’s a really far-reaching community.” Vancouver has proven perfect for Sofar’s model. Priding itself on intimacy, the volunteer-staffed organization has a no-cellphone policy and asks guests not to talk during the show. Scheduling the order of performance by chance rather than calibre, Sofar insists that the audience arrive on time and stay for the duration of the evening. By opening up a new way
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he’s in early talks about And as for quality control, Hodgson has that performing in L.A. and covered too. Seattle, and it’s all because “We are quite stringent about who we book,” of the night he played here she continues. “We use a voting spreadsheet. in Vancouver.” There’s two tabs: one for people that have reTo fill Vancouver’s venue void with nontraditional It’s clear that Hodgquested to play for us, and one for bands that spaces, locals have tapped into a global network son and her team of our team members have put forward. We vote to engage with music, each event creates a dis- volunteers are committed to the Sofar ethos. democratically on each of them. If you get the tinctly welcoming environment. Through its staffers’ dedication, Sofar Vancou- go-ahead, you’re in the Sofar family.” “It’s really important to connect with the ver has snowballed from humble beginnings in Under Hodgson’s guidance, Sofar Vancouver artist, to see the performers’ faces,” Hodgson July 2014 to scheduling a slick event every is fast becoming one of the most vibrant says. “Having a smaller amount of people in the two weeks. Now one of only 16 cities to events in the franchise. Spreading the room guarantees an experience. That’s some- organize a bimonthly show, Vancouglobal model across every neighbourCheck out… thing we really encourage. With Sofar, you’re ver is surging. hood in the city, Sofar’s gigs offer a STRAIGHT.COM going to have the chance to talk to the artists But with its success come potenfresh live-music experience at a time Make our website after the show, and the musicians jump at the tial pitfalls. As a larger pool of bands when many established Vancouver your source for chance to interact with the guests, too.” plays more frequent gigs, concerns venues are struggling. concert reviews Sofar’s philosophy doesn’t end there. Every are mounting that Sofar’s premium “When we first started putting on and local music performer is offered the chance to have a pro- mix of artist and location may suffer these shows, Sofar’s global founder fessional video made of his or her set, and more a drop in quality. Tackling these wor[Rafe Offer] made a joke that he than 65 local musicians have, Hodgson proudly ries, the ever-positive Hodgson sees the inthought our city would be a really hard says, had their tracks viewed internationally on crease in shows as a chance to apply Sofar’s mod- one to break,” Hodgson recalls. “I think we’ve Sofar’s YouTube channel. Broadcasting Van- el to more eclectic musical venues and genres. proved him wrong. There’s this great resurcouver’s intimate shows to over 159,000 follow“We really engage with what’s new and inter- gence to reclaim live music right now in Vaners worldwide, the city’s Sofar team is helping esting,” Hodgson says. “If I was out on a normal couver. And Sofar is one of the innovative ways artists go global. Friday, I’d never think to myself, ‘Man, I really it’s happening.” “A good example is Jon Bryant,” Hodgson re- want to go see an electronic clarinetist. Where do calls. “Our video of his show has well over 5,000 I go for that?’ In a way, we’re in the business of Sofar next takes place on April 20, at a secret YouTube views, and counting. He’s featured on the giving people what they didn’t know they wanted. l o c a t i o n i n G r a n d v i ew Wo o d l a n d s t o b e front page of the ‘Best of Sofar Sounds’ list, which It might crash and burn sometimes, but most of rev e a l e d. Wa t c h w w w. s o f a rs o u n d s . c o m / vancouver/ for details. reaches a huge community internationally. Now the time we get a pretty good response.”
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MUSIC Let’s talk about FÜHRER TRUMP Tyler, the Creator is taking a shot at Donald Trump with an Adolf Drumpf line of T-shirts. The shirts feature the U.S. presidential hopeful with a drawn-on Hitler mustache, which, if you think about it, is 97 percent less offensive than Trump’s hair. MERCURIAL EGOS Queen’s Brian May has called Sacha
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first popped up on our radar in 2014 with “Avant Gardener”, a slackerpop ode to asthma, allergies, and paramedics who stop people from dying. Last year brought us an official full-length—Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit—which packed a mini novel’s worth of details into every three-minute song. Proving genius is sometimes recognized, this past weekend Barnett received the prestigious Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) award for songwriter of the year. Celebrate next Tuesday (April 19) when she headlines the Commodore. Asthma puffers optional. -
Baron Cohen, who dropped out of a Freddie Mercury biopic, “an arse” and suggested that Ben Whishaw—“a real actor”—would make a better Mercury. Another one bites the dust!
HALL OF DOUCHEBAGS Steve Miller celebrated his recent induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by calling everyone even remotely associated with the organization a “dick and an asshole”. Considering recent inductees have included Gene Simmons, David Lee Roth, and Axl Rose, we can’t disagree. TOO BAD Finnish student Salli Anttonen has written
a paper with the delightful title “Hypocritical Bullshit Performed Through Gritted Teeth: Authenticity Discourses in Nickelback’s Album Reviews in Finnish Media”.
Fresh and local TRAFFIK THE MODEST TOMORROW The title The Modest Tomorrow should tip listeners off to the fact that Traffik isn’t the type of rapper to boast of all his material acquisitions. The MC born Jacob Saltzberg is not in the game to get rich or die tryin’. “Ultimately all I want to do in life is write,” Traffik announces on “Oakwood Park”. And on “Never Forget (Where U Came From)”, he insists “The realest thing I live for, the only thing that I wish/Is to understand and not forget what love really is.” A tone of gratitude dominates, and that’s not entirely surprising given that Saltzberg made The Modest Tomorrow after having surgery to remove nodules from his vocal cords, leaving him wondering if he’d ever rap again. He did, obviously, and he’s not the only one who can be thankful for that. APRIL 14 – 21 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 31
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PRINCESS CHEUNG PING Tong Kig Sang’s classic love story set during the late Ming Dynasty. Apr 16, 7-11 pm, Michael J. Fox Theatre (7373 MacPherson Ave., Burnaby). Info www.vancanopera.com/.
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SOUND OF DRAGON MUSIC FESTIVAL Performances by Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Borealis String Quartet, Orchid Ensemble, and guest artists from Taiwan. Apr 20-24, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $20-70, info www.soundofdragon.com/.
COMEDY 2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2JERRY ROCHA Apr 14-16 2SEAN PATTON Apr 21-23
SCHUBERT CITY Gramophone magazine has called him “a born Schubertian”, so who better to curate the Vancouver Recital Society’s Schubertiade celebration than pianist Inon Barnatan? The ever-poetic artist-in-association of the New York Philharmonic takes to the piano himself on Thursday night (April 14) in a piano-for-four-hands performance: one of Franz Schubert’s greatest works, Fantasie in F Minor. Barnatan is joined by American piano master Jonathan Biss in the concert—talk about fingers flying. Elsewhere on the program, Barnatan joins forces with violinist Benjamin Beilman and cellist Gary Hoffman for the light-hearted Trio No. 1 in B Flat, and Barnatan rounds out the evening with the dramatic Sonata in B Flat Major. By the end, Schubert fans should be reeling in a state of sheer bliss. TIES THAT BIND Mixed evening program of new dance weaves personal anecdotes and family histories into a universal fabric. Apr 20-23, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $25-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK VSO SPRINGFEST Five-concert series exploring the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Richard Wagner. To Apr 18, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/. SCHUBERTIADE The Vancouver Recital Society presents a chamber-music festival featuring eight works by Franz Schubert, as performed by 10 musicians from around the world. Apr 14-15, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info 604-602-0363, www.vanrecital.com/.
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LAGRIME DI SAN PIETRO Philippe Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale Gent in a performance of Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus’s cycle of 20 sacred madrigals. Apr 15, 7:30 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Info www.earlymusic.bc.ca/. VOYAGES Musica intima presents a concert exploring mythical travel, the sea, space, and the stars. Includes music by Urmas Sisask, Jaako Mäntyjärvi, Michael McGlynn, and Aaron Jensen. Apr 15, 7:30 pm, St. James Community Square (3214 W. 10th). Tix $25/10, info www.musicaintima.org/.
YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancouver. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2JONATHAN KITE Apr 14-16 2JEFF ELLIOTT Apr 21-23 2RICHARD LETT Apr 28-30 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Throne and Games—A Chance of Snow (every Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm). Apr 13-20, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK FUNDRAISER FOR RYAN LACHANCE Benefit comedy show to help raise for funds for a new lift needed by disabled comic Ryan Lachance. Apr 17, 8 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $10, info www.yukyuks.com/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK CAPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL Highlights include public installations, tours, films, a Speaker Series with artist talks, and panel discussions. To Apr 28, various Metro Vancouver venues. Info www.capturephotofest.com/.
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GO FLY A KITE If television has taught us anything over the years, it’s that you can’t judge a talent by the crap show it’s on. John Mulaney is a great example. He’s one of the brightest young standups on the scene, and his failed sitcom was one of the worst ever produced. It happens. 2 Broke Girls, on the other hand, is one of the most successful sitcoms no one has ever seen. And for good reason: it’s awful. But Jonathan Kite, who plays the horny Ukrainian cook Oleg on that show, is a funny standup comic and master impressionist. The Chicago native has worked with Second City and the Groundlings, so he’s got some chops. And he’s coming to Yuk Yuk’s from Thursday to Saturday (April 14 to 16). It’s your chance to hear Tom Hanks, Seth Rogan, and Robert Downey Jr., among others, coming from the same mouth.
GODS APLENTY A Last Supper set amid Vancouver’s drug-ravaged Downtown Eastside. The Buddha browsing the produce at a trendy organic-foods market. A financially strapped Elohim sitting on a bed, looking forlorn. And a tow-truck-driving Satan getting ready to haul a granny’s car. These are just some of the provocative large-light-box images displayed in Vancouver photographer Dina Goldstein’s Gods of Suburbia, a startling exhibit about religion and contemporary society that returns to town to South Main (SOMA) Gallery from Thursday night (April 14) to April 30 as part of the Capture Photography Festival. Goldstein has recently been the subject of major international buzz for her richly detailed, popsurrealist work, scoring the Prix Virginia in 2014 in Paris; come see what all the fuss is about. MEDIA SHOW SPRING 2016 Watch short films, installations, and interactive media works from Emily Carr University of Art + Design Students. Apr 14, 7-9 pm, Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street). Free admission, info www.face book.com/events/248947782114980/. FUSE: THIS IS NOW Evening of art and music features performances by Justine A. Chambers, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Project Soul, RARUFU, Milton Lim, Remy Siu, Kareem Abdul Jabaastard and Deanna Peters, Mutable Subject, and DJ Flipout. Apr 15, 8 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby). Info www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE (exhibition offers an international survey of mashup culture, documenting the emergence and evolution of a mode of creativity that has grown to become the dominant form of cultural production in the early 21st century) to Jun 12
MUSEUMS THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE SEPIK RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (exhibition features the carvings of Papua New Guinea’s Iatmul people) to Jan 31, 2017
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KISS man is wrong on rap
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o one ever accused Gene Simmons of having his finger on the pulse of pop culture, at least not in this century. So it wasn’t much of a shock when, in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the KISS member and inveterate self-promoter blasted the current state of the pop charts. “I am looking forward to the death of rap,” Simmons announced. “I’m looking forward to music coming back to lyrics and melody, instead of just talking. A song, as far as I’m concerned, is by definition lyric and melody… or just melody.” In the same interview, the author of deathless classics like “Ladies Room” and “Burn Bitch Burn” said, “Rap will die. Next year, 10 years from now, at some point, and then The ghost of N.W.A founding member Eazy-E (centre) has been known something else will come along. And to play a mean air bass whenever it listens to KISS’s “God of Thunder”. all that is good and healthy.” His prediction of rap’s demise members took the opportunity to life,” Cube went on to say. “That is rock ’n’ roll, and that is us.” places Simmons in the company of return fire. Well, that settles that, right? Not the brain trust at Decca Records in “I want to say to Mr. Gene Sim1962 who rejected the Beatles, saying mons, hip-hop is here forever,” said according to Simmons. “Respectfully,” he tweeted to Ice Cube, “let me “guitar groups are on the way out” MC Ren. and “the Beatles have no future in Ice Cube, meanwhile, chose a big- know when @JimiHendrix gets into show business.” ger target: those old-guard rockers the hip hop hall of fame. Then youll Hip-hop is hardly the flavour of who feel that the likes of N.W.A have [sic] have a point.” The point—which clearly sailed the week (which, no place in the Hall with a tongue like of Fame. (It should over the follicularly challenged head that, you’d think be noted that of the man born Chaim Witz—was Simmons would Run-D.M.C., the that N.W.A’s uncompromisingly conJohn Lucas be able to tell). Beastie Boys, Public frontational brand of rap embodies the Like KISS itself, the genre that now Enemy, and Grandmaster Flash and spirit of rock ’n’ roll just as much as a arguably dominates modern pop has the Furious Five were all inducted in band of 60-somethings in platform its roots in early-1970s New York previous years—and all before KISS, boots and greasepaint cashing in on songs they wrote four decades ago. City. Unlike KISS, it has generated who only made the cut in 2014.) “The question is: ‘Are we not rock Mind you, this is an unwinnable more than three memorable songs. Needless to say, there were a few ’n’ roll?’ ” Cube asked. “And I say, ‘You argument, especially if your opponent hip-hop veterans who didn’t take goddamn right we’re rock ’n’ roll.’ Rock happens to be Simmons. Even if he ackindly to having their chosen mode ’n’ roll is not an instrument. It’s not cepted that hip-hop belongs under the of expression dismissed as a soon- even a style of music. It’s a spirit that’s banner of rock ’n’ roll, that probably to-be-passing fad—especially by been going on since the blues, jazz, wouldn’t change his certainty with rea guy who looks like he’s wearing bebop, soul, rock ’n’ roll, R&B, heavy gard to its impending doom. After all, this is the same guy who told Esquire unidentified roadkill on his head. metal, punk rock, and, yes, hip-hop. “Rock ’n’ roll is not conforming to in 2014: “Rock is finally dead.” When N.W.A was inducted into the And it’s buried, presumably, in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April the people who came before you, but 8, the pioneering gangsta-rap crew’s creating your own path in music and KISS-branded casket. -
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eeaa is a DJ, a radio host, and a grown man who tweets at food bloggers once a month to make fun of them. You can catch this dapper Jägerbomb aficionado, also known as Zia Hirji, every month at Side Chick, a rap and R&B party at the Projection Room. Show up and he promises to give you a shout-out when you cut off the music to yell out all the most offensive lyrics. This will be complemented by gratuitous use of air horns and fog machines throughout the proceedings. If that’s not your thing, you can tune in every Wednesday at 8 p.m. to hear Zeeaa host Inside Out Radio on CiTR 101.9 FM. Do so and you’ll be treated to electronic dance music, new and old, with a heavy focus on local talent. The show has been on the air for five years and counting, and has a captive audience purported to be in the dozens—likely making it the most listened-to college-radio show in the country. And if music isn’t your thing, you can observe him being a jerk on your computer, smartphone, or tablet. Just this month Zeeaa expanded his trolling endeavours beyond food bloggers to include a rather heinous-looking craft-beer booze cruise. What started with him asking if he could drive the boat on the cruise’s Facebook page Zeeaa has a unique way of picking records to play on his radio show: he ignited an unruly online mob with spreads them out on his lawn, and the ones his dog pees on make the cut. the noble goal of making fun of the sort of people who would pay money surrounded by all my friends at once, FAVE VANCOUVER PRODUCER I rate Florist. He released my favourite and I also got to play records. to attend a craft-beer booze cruise. record of 2015, the Phenomena EP, on The event was swiftly inundated with hundreds of inane questions TOP TRACK RIGHT NOW My top All Caps. He’s also a great DJ, good at about the cruise’s policy on pirate track at the moment is “Come and See jokes, and has one of the cutest dogs attacks, Bitcoin, ayahuasca, spa- Me” by PARTYNEXTDOOR, featur- you’ll ever meet. But big up all the ghetti, vaping, and peeing off the ing Drake. It’s not the newest song, homies doing things on the Canadian but it’s a total vibe. It also features my Riviera—Pacific Rhythm, It’s Your side of the boat. This lesson in herd mentality dem- favourite kind of Drake, a.k.a. Emo- Turn, Mood Hut, and 1080p. tional Drake. Esonstrated that onsentially, all you WHAT’S UP WITH TROLLING line mobs can do So Many DJs need to do is throw CRAFT-BEER BOOZE CRUISES ON good and inspire this track on, light FACEBOOK? I honestly have no clue laughter instead Michael Mann some candles, and why you’re asking me this question. of the usual: exI had nothing to do with the online pressing outrage, educating you about you’re good. mob that posted hundreds of inane Bernie Sanders, and harassing people until they quit the Internet. But fret A SONG THAT CLEARED THE questions in a craft-beer cruise’s Facenot, craft-beer lovers, the booze cruise DANCE FLOOR I was playing to book event. All I wanted to know is if is still a go. Except the commenting a room of about 250 people and I could drive the boat, a question that on the Facebook event appears to be just got that itch. George. Salsa. still hasn’t been answered. heavily moderated now. Oh well, at Boca Raton. Had to get that feelleast Zeeaa will always have dance ing, so I dropped the theme song ODDEST REQUEST YOU’VE EVER floors, college-radio fans, and food from Seinfeld. I can’t say that what RECEIVED There was one time where I saw could be described as smiles it was this girl’s birthday. All of her bloggers to terrorize. or even movement. But there was friends came up to request a song and it BEST GIG EVER Probably when me jaw-dropping, so I knew I was onto finally leaked that it was her birthday! and AJK had Cut Copy DJ the one- something. Chopped salad and I couldn’t believe that she didn’t just year anniversary of our Midnight scrambled eggs were needed up in tell me in the first place, because that’s City party. That was one of the big- the club that night, too, so about a sure-fire way to get a record played. gest events we did to date. The vibe 15 minutes later I played the theme So happy that I was a part of her night of the room was amazing, I was song from Frasier. and that she had the best time ever! -
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2THIS WEEK THE RESIDENTS Avant-garde art-rock collective the Residents present their latest live show Shadowland and a pre-concert screening of the documentary Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents Apr 14, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $35, info www.residents.com/.
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It’s perfectly legal to buy and sell used underwear, LOSS, so there’s no legal risk. But you risk losing this guy as a friend if you broach the subject. You can approach it indirectly by saying something like “So sorry to hear you’re selling off your music equipment. You’re young and hot— you could probably make more money selling used underwear or sweaty tanks.” Then follow his lead: If he’s disgusted by the suggestion, drop it. If he’s into the idea, offer to be his fi rst customer.
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Your friend is going to waste a lot of time wondering what she did wrong, PART, if you don’t tell her the real reason you can’t hang out with her anymore. And guess what? This not knowing will cause her more hurt than the truth could. So tell your friend the real reason she’s out of your life: you’re terminating your friendship because your wife is an insecure bag of slop who regards her
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 9, 2016 WHERE: On the Cambie 15/False Creek 50 Bus Going Northbound Along Cambie Street Hi, I was riding home on the bus after work this evening (about 11:30pm, just a few passengers, maybe only me, not sure); my eyes were closed, so at first, I wasn’t even sure if you were talking to me. You said “how’s it going?” or “how are you doing?” I guess I looked startled as I tentatively said “hi”. You said “oh, sorry, I won’t bother you”, and to be honest, I felt relieved... and then regretful because you were lovely and open and friendly and so readily considerate, it was sweet... Silly maybe, but somehow, you charmed me... Here’s my delayed response: “tired and too thoughtful, unwinding from work”. Thanks for the lovely interruption. I’m sorry I didn’t talk with you. It would have been nice to meet you.
BLUE JAY IN 8TH AND MAIN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 9, 2016 WHERE: 8th and Main
Friday eve @ The Playhouse. You took my arm as I was leaving, asked if I went to Steve Nash, then told me my hair was always so on point. I noticed you all nite. Would’ve stayed if I could’ve. Thought I saw you at gym today, went looking but couldn't see you. Who’s the Hunter now? :)
I dipped into the clothing store 8th and Main. You weren’t the first thing I saw, but you were definitely the most memorable. You were around 6’5" and dressed in grey with a Blue Jays cap on. You caught me staring at you from the line up to the change room. I was the blonde in the jean shorts and black shirt. Posting this just to put it out into the universe that I like babes in Blue Jay caps.
TOW YOUR NEW FERRARI YP TO ANMORE
MALONES ON WEST PENDER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 9, 2016 WHERE: Malones on West Pender
Saturday evening, we were both admiring a classic cream-coloured International Harvester Scout in Suter Brook. I joked about having it towed away so I could have it... You asked me to find a Ferrari for you and tow it to Anmore. I think you were there with your son getting ice cream. I saw you in traffic a couple of times later... Would love to see you again for more than a few seconds here and there.
We had a few cigarettes together outside Malones, on the little bench. I am Irish. You had black hair and are Canadian... You said your name was Anastasia.
MODIFIED GHOST BUST
You: Kindest vehicle driver I have EVER encountered when on my bike. Glasses, gold Jeep. Maybe you work at Microsoft? Me: Idiot on a bike. Glasses. Probably red in the face from embarrassment. Cyclists are dumb sometimes. I was dumb this time. Sorry for cutting you off on the ramp - I’m sure you didn’t expect me to turn left on the sidewalk there. I should probably buy you a coffee for causing you that stress. I hope your day only got better from there!
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GUY IN A JEEP, GIRL ON A BIKE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 6, 2016 WHERE: Nordstrom Carpark
YOU WERE TALKING TO ME
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 8, 2016 WHERE: Donnley Pub Granville Dowmtown Vancouver You were on the next table to me at the Donnley Pub on Granville . We talked a few times. I am from Singapore. Let's connect again if destiny wants us to be together.
BREKA ON DAVIE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 9, 2016 WHERE: Breka on Davie Street You had slicked back hair and a mustache, in a black jacket. I was sitting with friends, black hair with blonde streaks and glasses, wearing a shirt with skulls on it. We smiled and made eye contact a few times. You waved to me as I left. I’d love to know what you were reading.
TALL GUY ON W GEORGIA AND CITADEL PARADE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 9, 2016 WHERE: W Georgia and Citadel Parade Tall guy walking along W Georgia St. and Citadel Parade around 10:30 pm on Friday, nice to meet you too! You were too hot! You kept looking back and eventually waved at me. I was with 2 of my friends, we were with a dog.
CUTE GUY AT THE GYM
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 8, 2016 WHERE: Hillcrest Gym
We see each other almost every morning at the gym. We’ve made eye contact a couple times. I’ve been wanting to say hi and introduce myself which is really rare for me since I’m a shy person. I’m the one who always wears the black nike hat. Hopefully we get to chat sometime soon.
GUACAMOLE/AVOCADO MEMES
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 6, 2016 WHERE: Broads and Granville This might be a long shot but here goes... You: Sat at my section in the restaurant tonight for a surprise birthday party tonight (I think it was for your sister) and you and your friends waited about 30 minutes for everyone else to arrive. When I took your order, we quickly laughed about Guacamole/ Avocado memes. Me: Spilled a drink by your table and should’ve given you my number anyway. If you’re up for some coffee or guacamole, send me a message :) Ps. Q: What was the location of where you used to work?
CUTE BOY ON THE BUS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 2, 2016 WHERE: 49th and Nanaimo You were on the #20 with your head phones. We talked about music and you got off at Broadway. I didn’t find out where your accent was from. Coffee soon?
PRETTY BOY IN A BLUE BALL CAP
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 5, 2016 WHERE: SkyTrain Travels We both got on the SkyTrain at Burrard. We were both standing facing each other, we locked eyes and I smiled at you. I was hoping you would get off at my stop so I could get your number but you got off at Stadium. I hope you see this so I don’t miss the chance to see you again.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 4, 2016 WHERE: Burrard and West Georgia Street I was walking behind you with a friend and noticed your outfit as you were walking ahead. We got on the same bus line yesterday around 5:45pm on Burrard and W Georgia. You sat across from me to my right, your left. We got off at the same stop. West 4th and Vine. I wanted to say hello, which I would typically do but you made me far too nervous. Who knows if this works but hey, worth a shot! You never know. :)
MAKING EYES ON THE 10 GRANVILLE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 5, 2016 WHERE: 10 Granville Heading Downtown Me: tall, dark hair in a black coat and turtleneck You: ruggedly handsome with dark hair, scruff and Blundstones. It made my morning to look up from my phone and see you sitting there. Let’s take this from making eyes at each other across the aisle, to over drinks.
SOUTH GRANVILLE CLINIC: ME LEAVING, YOU ARRIVING!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 4, 2016 WHERE: South Granville Hi, I know this is a stretch... but why not?! I was just leaving a clinic on South Granville and you were just coming in the door and our eyes met. It was short but sweet! I like following up on spontaneous connections, so if this is you, and you feel some spark too (!!), let’s do coffee!
GARIBALDI BIKE TRAILS SQUAMISH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 31, 2016 WHERE: Garibaldi/Diamond Head Bike Lot You were just coming down the hill from a ride, I was waiting in the parking lot for a friend. We had a brief chat while you loaded up your bike into your black BMW. You were friendly and cute, and I wish I had introduced myself when I had the chance. If you want company for sushi next time, let me know.
SPRING IS IN THE AISLE ... AT NO FRILLS?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 3, 2016 WHERE: No Frills, Denman Mall Sunday afternoon grocery shopping. You caught my eye when we both came in to the store at the same time. At one point, we were both standing at the assorted nuts aisle, seemingly both contemplating what to get. I wanted to say something but frankly, I chickened out. You: stunningly cute with large frame glasses, hair up and wearing a light green jacket. Me: 5 ft 9, brown hair, blue wind-breaker and shorts. It’s a long shot but I’d love to start that conversation. Perhaps coffee, dessert (with walnuts on top?)
GOOD FRIDAY FERRY TRAVEL
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: MARCH 25, 2016 WHERE: Schwartz Bay Ferry Terminal We met at the Schwartz Bay ferry terminal while you were charging your phone on what seemed like the most bizarre outlet location. I complimented you on your (grandmother’s) amber ring. We said our goodbyes at City Hall. It was a great day in Victoria, but meeting you really was the highlight. I’ve also regretted not asking your number since then. Drinks?
MEAT AND BREAD
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: APRIL 2, 2016 WHERE: Meat and Bread, Cambie St. You are the most beautiful woman I have seen in a awhile. Lovely tattoos, amazing short dark brown hair, perfectly cut!! Pardon the expression, you manned the steam table, you also looked like you could be managing as well. I was sitting at bar just adjacent to cashier with a silver haired man. My hair short like yours. So sad I didn’t get a chance to talk to you, one never knows. At a minimum you should know how beautiful you are!!!
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Jupiter are on the gain. What you your plans, thinking, heart, or mind, choose to commit to now gains new watch for it to be quickly refi lled. hat’s next? What’s un- life or holds greater-than-average poCANCER finished, sitting in your tency and potential. June 21–July 22 pending pile, and/or ARIES Make the most of it Thursclamouring for more of March 20–April 20 day/Friday. Connect, talk, pitch, neyour time and attention? The stars now Despite the fact that Mars, gotiate, shop, socialize, or mobilize. clear the way for you to get at it. Thursday/Friday, when the mo- your ruler, turns retrograde on Sunday, Mercury/Jupiter can present usement presents itself, say it, do it, take now through next Tuesday can be quite ful information or something that it on. They are also the best days to productive, affirming, or solidifying. hits the target very well. Once Mars get your entertainment fi ll, to spread Mars and Pluto retrograde redirect the and Pluto retrograde hit full swing, the love around, or to get out of town. attention and the momentum. A long- it will be time to try an alternate If you are feeling it’s time to back standing/long-run matter now loses course or angle, to switch to a next up and/or shift gear, then you are some of its drive, potency, or priority project or job, to get another opinion reading the signal correctly. Th is is status, while something previously or price quote. not a time to push against it harder sidetracked, secondary, or altogether LEO but to allow what is naturally over- new replaces it as the attention-getter. July 22–August 23 taking you to gain more traction. TAURUS Whether impulse leads As of Sunday, Mars, currently tourApril 20–May 21 the way or your days are planned, ing Sagittarius, begins a two-month Mars retrograde will nat- Thursday/Friday are strike-gold retrograde. It’s a momentum switch that happens every 26 months. On urally prompt you (or force you) to days. Travel, news, attention, reMonday, Pluto begins its annual four- distance yourself from the person, ward; something to show off, somemonth retrograde. Both are ideally place, or thing that hasn’t delivered one to meet, something special to timed for the end of the university on the promise. This soul-searching do: soak it up. Mars retrograde urges semester. On Tuesday, the sun advan- cycle can lead you into a more honest you to get back in touch with what ces into Taurus, and next Thursday, and open conversation with yourself. and who is most important to you. there’s a Scorpio full moon to navigate Allow ample time to observe, reflect, Devote more quality time to creativthrough. How does that translate? and feel your way along. Take the ity, loved ones, and yourself. Slow down, play it smart, reexamine. next two months to do just that. VIRGO Rather than force yourself to stay the GEMINI August 23–September 23 course when it’s obvious that the odds May 21–June 21 Consider both Mars and are stacked against you, plug yourself A trip, departure, or good- Pluto retrograde as regroup inf luinto a different outlet. A revisit, replacement, or something altogether bye can be well timed. A change of ences. Both will help you (or force new could do the trick. Time apart strategy, opinion, involvement, or you) to make whatever shifts are or away can push the refresh-and- subject can be too. Mars retrograde necessary to bring you into better replenish button in some healthy and can help you to get a better handle alignment with yourself. If you find on that which has escaped you, yourself on a backtrack, a repeat, advantaged way. While Mars and Pluto reverse grown out of proportion or beyond or a complete start-over, know that course, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and your control. If there’s a vacancy in what might initially look like a loss
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Something or someone new could pop into your awareness or make a striking impression. Thursday/ Friday can get it underway in some major way. Mercury/Jupiter suggests there’s a lot more to explore. What switches track or overtakes you now should feel like a natural progression or a right step. Don’t force; don’t push; don’t override opinion or intuition. When in doubt, pull back, slow down.
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December 21–January 20
Mars retrograde will affect you from a background position but it is potent nonetheless. Pluto in reverse motion is an annual event and is often subtle in its workings. Between Thursday and Monday, watch for something important to jell or gain priority. Tuesday can cement it, reward effort, or give you something more substantial to work with. January 20–February 18
Enjoy yourself, splurge, celebrate Thursday/Friday. These are great days to socialize, but once Mars retrograde is in full swing, you’ll want to pull back and/or aim elsewhere. Something or someone will need more attention from you. As best you can, clear your slate. Watch for Wednesday through Friday to fi re up something fresh or unexpected.
The show is important Thursday/Friday. Aim to make an impression or to get more attention. As Mars and Pluto turn retrograde, it’s time to explore better options, to revise your goals, to set your sights on something more or something new. PISCES A major change regarding lifestyle, reFebruary 18–March 20 lationship, or material status is in the The rules, necessities, works. The next several months take rationales, and priorities are changing. you through a continuous evolution. Ambitions, career, home, family, and SAGITTARIUS social life are on a major switch-track November 22–December 21 as both Mars and Pluto start retroThursday/Friday are your grade. A parent or someone important best days to say it, do it, to get a move to you could change their mind, lose on, or to claim the spotlight. Once their stronghold, or need you to cover Mars in Sagittarius reverses course, for them. Tuesday, Thursday, and Friit’s time to back out, back down, to day set it in motion. put yourself or it on autopilot. Give more leeway to that which has been Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s on the back burner and/or is now on free monthly newsletter: www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. a natural growth curve.
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